That’s not a font – it’s stone carving

Nick Cooke

What exactly do you like about this kind of lettering? Maybe we can come up with something similar that you might like.

[quote]That’s not a font – it’s stone carving[/quote]
DUH!!! Brilliant observation, Sherlock.

It is also a font. Their letterhead and logo, etc, all have this font
used.

This feels Goudy-esque to me. It’s similar to ITC Berkeley or Font Bureau’s Californian.

http://fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/monotype/itc_berkeley_old_style_std/

http://fontshop.com/search/?q=CALIFORNIAN&x=0&y=0

Thanks, marcox. I actually have the Californian. Wow, didn’t see the silmilarities.

Have a good weeked.

You wouldn’t happen to know a free alternative to URW Agenda Ex Bold?

URW Agenda seems inspired, to put it kindly, by Clearface Gothic (itself available from several foundries).

http://fontshop.com/search/?q=clearface+gothic&site=d&btnG=Go

Seems unlikely that there’ll be a free alternative.

>> That’s not a font – it’s stone carving.

> DUH!!! Brilliant observation, Sherlock.

What Nick meant is that often letters carved in stone — and specifically this example — are not based on fonts that are available digitally. This is custom lettering, not type.

[quote]This is custom lettering, not type.[/quote]
I beg to differ, it may be a modified version of the fonts
identified but it was still a font before being LASER CARVED into
the stone. I have tocuhed the sign, myself, and it was not hand
carved, hence it had to be done by a computer, and thus digital fonts HAD to be used.

This is closed because I used Californian as it was extremely close, so, close that you can’t tell unless it’s blown up so large...
I redid the logo in Illustrator and it looks great.